Need end of tenancy cleaning in Elephant Park?

The first thing a check-out clerk does in a Park Central flat is open the AEG oven door and look at the gap between the two glass panes. Grease creeps in there over a tenancy and bakes onto the inner pane, and a spray-and-wipe on the door front will never reach it. That single detail decides more Elephant Park deposits than anything else in the kitchen, which is why our end of tenancy work here is built around the exact hand-over spec these new blocks were finished to, not a generic flat. We are a domestic cleaning firm working the whole SE17 patch, priced at £30 per hour per cleaner or a fixed job rate, with the re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out report itself. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the SE17 1 core and the SE1 6 bleed across New Kent Road: Sayer Street, Deacon Street, Heygate Street, Elephant Road, the Castle Square parade on Walworth Road, and the South Gardens townhouses on Berryfield Road. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Southwark.

The hand-over pack is the standard you are marked against

Start with the mechanism, because it is the whole game and almost nobody explains it. When you moved into an Elephant Park flat, someone photographed it against the developer hand-over pack: every appliance, every metre of engineered-oak, the glazing, the balcony rail, all logged as new. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares against those photos, line by line. Anything worse than the hand-over state, past fair wear, is chargeable against your deposit. You are not being marked against a lived-in idea of tidy. You are being marked against a flat that had just been professionally handed over, which is exactly why a mop and a spare Sunday rarely gets a full deposit back.

On the build-to-rent side, run by Get Living across Park Central and the Sayer Street blocks, that bar is set by the operator rather than a one-off landlord, so it is consistent and it is documented. The clerk has the original photo set open on a tablet while they walk. Resold leasehold flats on Trafalgar Place, the One The Elephant tower and the South Gardens townhouses use independent inventory clerks, but the same instinct applies, because the flats were all finished to the same pack. The deduction conversation is real money too. Southwark private rents are among the steepest in inner south London, five weeks of it usually sits in a deposit scheme behind each tenancy, and the operator has to account for every penny it holds back.

You are being marked against a flat that had just been professionally handed over.

Two things in law sit behind this and pull opposite ways. Your landlord or operator cannot force you to book a professional clean as a condition of the tenancy, so nobody can make us mandatory. But your protected deposit has to come back within ten days of an agreed figure under the deposit rules, and any cleaning deduction has to be evidenced against that original hand-over pack, not asserted. The tenant who turns up with their own dated photo set is the tenant who keeps the money. That is the part we build the whole job around.

A brand-new estate with an old borough on three sides

Elephant Park is unusual for us. Most of what we clean is period stock or dated ex-council flats. This is the opposite: roughly 3,000 homes built from scratch by Lendlease on the cleared Heygate Estate site, phased from 2013 to the mid-2020s around a new two-acre park off Sayer Street. The stock is young, the churn is fierce, and the tenants are mostly young professionals, international renters and students from the London College of Communication and LSBU a short walk away. Send us the block, the floor and the move-out date and we already know the kit before we arrive.

The blocks, and how they differ

Trafalgar Place, on the older 2015 phase to the south, is the dRMM cluster with cross-laminated-timber construction. Park Central East and West are the Allford Hall Monaghan Morris plots running between Sayer Street and the park, eight to twelve storeys, the bulk of the mixed-tenure homes. South Gardens brought the Futurehomes terrace of ultra-efficient townhouses with bay windows and private terraces on the Berryfield Road side. One The Elephant is the tall private-sale tower on the St Mary’s Churchyard corner. The Get Living build-to-rent flats cluster across Park Central and the Sayer Street frontage, with the Castle Square retail parade beneath the Walworth Road end. Every one of them was finished to the same hand-over spec: AEG integrated oven and induction hob, an integrated fridge-freezer and dishwasher, a washer-dryer on the rented flats, engineered-oak in the living and bedroom areas, tiled wet rooms, full-height or Juliette glazing, recessed LED downlights and a video-entry panel.

Then you step outside the masterplan and the borough is completely different. Walworth Road on the west boundary is Victorian shop-terraces and the East Street market a few minutes south. The streets running off it hold large ex-local-authority estates and older converted flats. So a crew can do a glass-and-oak new-build clean in the morning and a tired walk-up conversion off East Street in the afternoon, and the two need different products and a different eye. We differentiate them properly. This is not Kennington or Newington proper, and it is certainly not the old shopping-centre Elephant of ten years ago. It is the new-tower rental core with a Walworth fringe, and the clean has to suit whichever one you are actually in.

Where North Walworth licensing and the 2025 Act actually land

The Elephant Park core, the Heygate Street and Sayer Street addresses in SE17 1, sits inside Southwark’s North Walworth ward. That matters, because North Walworth is one of the wards in Southwark’s selective licensing scheme. The council runs two designations: Scheme 1 from 1 March 2022 covering Champion Hill, Faraday, Goose Green, Newington and St Giles, and Scheme 2 from 1 November 2023 covering North Walworth, Old Kent Road, Peckham, Camberwell Green, Rotherhithe and nine other wards, each running five years. So a privately rented flat in the Elephant Park footprint is very likely inside the selective net, and the northern fringe near New Kent Road edges toward Newington, which is in Scheme 1. On top of that, Southwark runs borough-wide additional HMO licensing from 1 March 2022 through to 28 February 2027, so any shared house here needs a licence whichever ward it falls in.

What that means in practice depends on who owns the flat. Most of Elephant Park is Get Living build-to-rent, held and managed by one operator, so the licensing sits with them and the hand-back standard is the operator’s; the selective scheme mainly bites on the resold leasehold flats let out privately by individual landlords. Either way, the standard that actually decides your deposit is the original developer hand-over pack, not the licence.

The other question tenants ask is whether the 2025 law changed the clean. It did not. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026: Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, and existing assured shorthold tenancies have converted to rolling periodic ones. None of that touched cleaning obligations or the deposit route at the back end of a tenancy. What it changed is timing. This was already a high-churn estate, full of one-year corporate and international lets; let people leave on a rolling two months’ notice instead of a fixed end date and the move-outs get more frequent and less predictable. The dull, useful takeaway: book the clean earlier than you used to, because the end-of-month slot you want will be gone if you wait.

The 57 things we work through in a Sayer Street flat

Every booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, tuned over a decade of London check-outs and scaled to the flat. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it, built for the kit these flats actually carry rather than a generic terrace.

The kitchen, where the deposit is usually won or lost

The AEG oven is the headline. We unscrew the door, drop both glass panes, and clean the inner pane flat on the worktop with a non-caustic degrease, because the film between the panes is the single most-flagged item on a Get Living check-out. Cavity, fan, element, seals, racks in a soaking tank, control fascia. The induction hob gets the silicone seal, the trim and the surrounding worktop, where hard-water spotting collects that a kitchen spray will not lift. Integrated extractor canopy degreased inside and out, filter soaked or swapped. The integrated fridge-freezer inside, drawers and door seals; the integrated dishwasher filter, arms and seals. On the rented flats the washer-dryer gets the door seal pulled back and scrubbed, a hot service wash through the drum, and the lint filter cleared, because skipping that is one of the commonest reasons a clerk pings the kitchen here. Handle-less unit faces wiped including the under-edge that catches finger oil. Worktops polished, taps and waste descaled, splashback grout brushed, bin recess and kickboards done, floor edges last.

Bathrooms and wet rooms

Walk-in shower glass, frame and channel descaled. Rainfall head and hose cleared. Tiled floor and walls, grout brushed back, silicone joints checked for grime rather than wiped over. Heated towel rail and chrome polished, the mirror demister edge wiped. Vanity drawers, soft-close hinges, integrated lighting, extractor vent. The WC inside the rim, the hinges, the flush plate and the floor behind the pan, which is where the torch always goes.

Bedrooms, living and the glazing

Wardrobe interiors top to bottom, drawer runners, bed bases lifted. Skirting, door tops, hinges and the threshold strips between rooms. Engineered-oak swept and microfibre-mopped with a wood-safe polish, never anything abrasive or acidic. Where carpet is fitted in a bedroom it is vacuumed top to tail. The floor-to-ceiling glazing gets its inner face and the frame channels, plus the condensation film that gathers along the lower track. A Juliette balcony rail gets the powder-coated panel and, on courtyard-facing flats that sit in shade, the underside of the lower channel, where a green film sets in that a sponge will not shift; that takes a soft brush and a gentle rinse. Recessed LED downlight bezels, radiator tops and the strips behind them.

Throughout the flat

The communal-corridor threshold and the inside face of your entrance door. Light switches, sockets, the thermostat and the video-entry panel, where finger oil shows under the downlights. All internal doors both sides, frames, handles and the soft-close mechanisms. Smoke-alarm housings and ceiling lines dusted. Utility and airing cupboard shelving, windowsills and reveals. Floors mopped or buffed last, working the route from the kitchen out so there are no fresh prints when the clerk arrives. Add-ons we price separately if you want them: carpet shampoo on the bedrooms, a second appliance deep-clean, external-side balcony glass where access allows.

What Thames Water does to the chrome in a fortnight

Elephant Park is on the Thames Water network, and south London tap water is very hard, around 300 parts per million of calcium carbonate. Scale climbs back onto shower heads, mixer taps, kettle elements and the washer-dryer drawer inside a fortnight, and a cloth does nothing to it. The clerk knows this and checks it first on the chrome. They run a thumbnail down the tap and look at the shower screen edge-on against the light.

So descaling is a real step on every SE17 job, not an afterthought. We use a weak-acid solution on the chrome, taps, glass and the hob trim, and we hand-buff dry the same day so nothing streaks back. We keep acid off porous tile and stone, and off the engineered-oak entirely. Get it wrong and you swap a limescale mark for an etch mark, which is a worse deduction than the one you started with.

“Two days between handing my notice in at work and the Get Living check-out, after nineteen months in a Park Central East one-bed on Sayer Street, second floor facing the courtyard. The oven inner door had a baked layer between the panes I could not touch, the Juliette rail had gone green underneath on the shaded side, and there was a grey scuff on the oak where my desk chair had rolled. Two cleaners, most of a day. They took the oven door apart on the worktop, brought the rail back with a soft brush, and lifted the scuff with a wood polish I would not have known to use. The check-out passed first time and my full deposit came back the next week.”
Priya, Park Central East one-bed, Sayer Street SE17 1, February 2026

What it costs, and the deposit maths behind it

Elephant Park is not a premium-priced patch for us; it runs at our standard London rate. The prices below are the full end of tenancy service, a fixed price rather than hourly, with the 57-point checklist applied and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee on every job. No VAT line, no fuel surcharge, no upper-floor premium for a flat you reach by lift.

Those figures assume a flat in normal move-out shape. A long let with heavy wear, a pet household or somewhere that has never had a deep clean costs more, and we tell you that on the phone, not on the invoice. Add-ons are priced plainly: carpet shampoo at £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed carpeted area; a single oven deep clean at £77, a double at £110, a 90cm range at £114. The £30 hourly rate covers two cleaners working together with their own kit.

Run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A one-bed at £207 against a five-week Southwark deposit is not really a decision. Every booking carries the 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the clerk or the Get Living walker flags a cleaning issue within 48 hours, we come back and put it right at no cost, provided you tell us inside that window and nobody has moved in. Our first-time pass rate across London sits at 97%, and SE17 tends to sit at or above that because the crews who work this patch know the AEG spec and the Juliette-rail film. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.

It is worth being clear about which clean you actually need, because the four get muddled and you only want to pay for the right one.

End of tenancy clean

The hand-back clean, built to match the developer hand-over pack and get a deposit back, with the flat empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it. Fixed price, or £30 an hour per cleaner for a part job.

Deep clean

A full reset of a flat you are staying in. Lived-in, no formal standard to hit, no inventory clerk at the end of it. Also from £30 an hour.

Regular clean

Ongoing upkeep, the same cleaner kept on the flat weekly or fortnightly, from £22 an hour on a weekly booking.

Domestic clean

A one-off tidy done by a team, charged at £26 an hour with a £186 minimum, which is two cleaners for three hours plus the £30 kit charge, for when a flat needs a lift but not the full end of tenancy job.

A Park Central East job from February

The Priya job above is a fair example of the pattern on the rented side here: a short international let, an AEG oven nobody had taken apart, a Juliette rail gone green on the shaded courtyard side, and an operator who checks against the original photos. The clean cost a fraction of the deposit at stake. It usually does. What turned it was the dated photo set that went out with the invoice as much as the scrubbing, which is the part a rushed DIY check-out never has when the walker pushes back. Every job we do here ends with that set, room by room, before and after.

Questions we get asked

How much is end of tenancy cleaning at Elephant Park?

Studios start at £156, one-bed apartments at £207, two-beds at £243, three-beds at £339, and the four-bed South Gardens townhouses at £425. A light or partial job is £30 per cleaner an hour with a two-cleaner minimum. Carpet shampoo and extra oven work are priced separately.

Do you clean inside Park Central, Park & Sayer and the Get Living blocks?

Yes. We are inside Park Central East and West, the Sayer Street frontage flats, the Castle Square parade, the Trafalgar Place phase, the South Gardens townhouses on Berryfield Road and the One The Elephant tower most weeks. The Get Living concierge clears us through the lobby on the day; for resold leasehold blocks we take an access code through the building manager.

Is Elephant Park in Southwark’s selective licensing scheme?

The core Elephant Park addresses in SE17 1 sit in the North Walworth ward, which is in Southwark’s selective licensing Scheme 2, running from 1 November 2023 for five years. The fringe near New Kent Road edges toward Newington, which is in Scheme 1 from 1 March 2022. Southwark also runs borough-wide additional HMO licensing to 28 February 2027. In practice the licence is the landlord’s paperwork; the thing that decides your deposit is the developer hand-over pack.

How long does a Park Central one-bed take?

Roughly four to five hours with two cleaners on a standard Park Central or Sayer Street one-bed. A two-bed runs six to seven hours with two, or four to five with three. A South Gardens townhouse across two or three floors is a long day with three cleaners.

Are you safe to use on engineered-oak floors?

Yes. We use a wood-safe polish and microfibre on engineered-oak and never put an abrasive pad or an acidic descaler near it. The Elephant Park oak runs on a plywood base with a UV-cured lacquer, and we treat it accordingly.

Can you deal with the AEG oven inner door properly?

Yes, and it is the item we plan the kitchen around. We unscrew the door, drop both glass panes, and clean the inner pane flat on the worktop with a non-caustic degrease. The baked film in the gap between the panes is the most-pinged thing on a Get Living check-out, and a spray on the door front will not touch it.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If your inventory clerk or the Get Living walker flags a cleaning issue within 48 hours of the clean, we come back and put it right at no extra cost, as long as you tell us inside that window and the flat is still as we left it. It is on every booking, every postcode we work.

How do you handle the very hard water marks?

SE17 is in Thames Water’s very hard band, around 300 ppm calcium carbonate. We use a weak-acid solution on chrome, taps and glass, keep it off porous tile, stone and the wood, and hand-buff everything dry the same day so it does not streak back.

Do you have public liability insurance?

Yes. We carry £5m public liability and employer’s liability, and we send the certificate to a managing agent or operator when they ask. The Get Living concierge usually wants to see it before clearing the booking.

Can I book at short notice?

Same-day or next-day is often possible, especially Tuesday to Thursday. End-of-month and Friday slots go first, so two or three days’ notice is sensible on this high-churn estate if you can give it.

How does parking work on the estate?

Most of the rented blocks have basement parking you reach with a code from the building manager, and we tend to load in from there. The Castle Square parade has a paid loading bay on Walworth Road we use for a short drop, and the streets on the Newington side are permit-controlled, so tell us the arrangement when you book.

Do you work with the letting agents and operators directly?

Yes. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, including the Get Living in-house team on the build-to-rent side and the independent agents handling the resold Trafalgar Place, One The Elephant and South Gardens stock. Some book us on the tenant’s behalf; more often the tenant books and we copy the operator on the photo pack.

How much have your tenants recovered in deposits?

£1.2m in deposit money recovered for tenants since 2014. We document every clean with photographs and a checklist sign-off, so a disputed deduction can go to the deposit scheme with proper evidence behind it. Shelter’s deposit guide walks through the route if it ever escalates.

Book it

Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Tell us the block, the floor and the move-out date, and we come back with a fixed price, usually within the hour. A couple of photos of the kitchen and bathroom sharpen the quote. And if your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

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